Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

The Feminine of Homer
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-954167-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Reihe: Classical Presences

Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged. The restrictions which applied to women's access to classical learning liberated them from the repressive and sometimes alienating effects of a traditional classical education. Women writers' reworkings of classical texts serve a variety of
purposes: to validate women's claims to authorship, to demand access to education, to highlight feminist issues through the heroines of ancient tragedy, to repudiate the warrior ethos of ancient epic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hurst, Isobel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Isobel Hurst is a Lecturer in English and Classics at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick.